Because she hadn’t heard from her 78-year-old uncle for two days and he mightn’t be reached by phone, a 58-year-old woman from Allhaming filed a police report on Tuesday. She was worried because the light in the house in Eggendorf in Traunkreis was also on, but the door was locked.
The officers from the Neuhofen an der Krems police station got inside the house. They found the pensioner lying on the floor in an unheated room shortly following 7 p.m. He was unresponsive. The 78-year-old must have fallen and was no longer able to help himself up. The two police officers immediately provided first aid and alerted the rescue service and emergency doctor. After initial care, the Red Cross Neuhofen an der Krems took him to the Kepler Clinic in Linz with severe hypothermia.
